New pandas for Singapore, Monty Python Flying Circus actors and their pups, a little bubbly for cricket champions and more in today’s daily brief.

A striking mineworker holds an umbrella as he awaits a “report back” meeting near Lonmin’s Marikana mine in South Africa’s North West Province. South Africa’s militant AMCU union refused to sign a “peace deal” with platinum company Lonmin on Thursday, undermining government-backed efforts to open pay talks and end a four-week strike scarred by deadly violence. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters photo)

A student affiliated with the All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU), a student wing of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), is carried to hospital by his friend after his face accidentally caught fire while burning an effigy of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, during their protest against the Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC)’s decision to hike prices on petroleum products and liquefied petroleum gas cylinders in Kathmandu. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters photo)

A boy plays on an artwork made of unwanted toys at the solo exhibition of Japanese artist Hiroshi Fuji, known for his creations that recycle unwanted toys and waste materials, in Tokyo. More than 100,000 unwanted toys collected by social groups across Japan for the past 13 years were used in the exhibition. Called “Central Kaeru Station – where have all these toys come from? The exhibition runs until Sunday. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters photo)

A diver from the Turkish sea police (C) carries a girl in a rescue boat as other divers look for victims in the Aegean sea off Menderes, western Turkey. At least 39 people were dead and many more were missing after a boat carrying illegal migrants sank off Turkey’s western Aegean coast on Thursday morning, a district governor said. Tahsin Kurtbeyoglu, the governor of Menderes, a coastal district in Izmir province, told state television TRT he expected the death toll to rise. (Safak Yel/Ihlas News Agency thru Reuters)

A combination photo shows a tsunami-devastated area in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture taken April 10, 2011 (L) and September 3, 2012, released by Kyodo on September 6, 2012, ahead of the one and a half years anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo/Reuters photos)

Warwickshire’s captain Jim Troughton holds the trophy as champagne flows after his team defeated Worcestershire in the county championship match and become county champions at New Road cricket ground in Worcestershire, England. (Philip Brown/Reuters photo)

Students walk in line towards a dining hall for lunch at a primary school for children of migrant workers in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. (Reuters photo)

Monty Python’s Flying Circus actors Terry Jones (R) carries his dog Nancy as he gestures to Talula, the dog of Python actor Carol Cleveland, outside the Angel pub in Highgate, north London. A blue plaque organized by friends and family was unveiled to former Monty Python star Graham Chapman following news that English Heritage had dropped plans for an ‘official Blue Plaque to the star, due to budget cuts. Chapman drank, wrote and was barred from the Angel pub in the 1970s. (Olivia Harris /Reuters photo)

A demonstrator reacts as an Indian riot policeman charges a crowd during a protest in Bhubaneswar. Dozens were injured as police fired tear gas and charged crowds during a Congress party rally demonstrating against India’s Odisha state government. (Getty Images)

Afghan National Police (ANP) personnel march during a graduation ceremony at a police training centre in Herat. The Taliban are involved in a quarter of Afghan security personnel attacks on NATO colleagues, according to a military commander. The surge of assaults, unprecedented in modern warfare, have seen Afghan troops opening fire on their NATO colleagues more than 30 times this year, killing at least 45 foreign troops — most of them Americans. (Aref KarimiGetty Images)

US Serena Williams plays a point against Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic during their 2012 US Open women’s singles match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. (Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images)

Relatives of Turkish soldiers are pictured after a huge blast rocked central Turkish province of Afyonkarahisar. A military storage filled with hand grenades exploded, leaving 25 soldiers dead and four others injured. The blast occurred between Ataky neighborhood and Kanlica village of Afyonkarahisar, close to residential areas but in an isolated territory. (IHA//Getty Images)

A general view of a Lamborghini Aventador during the 69th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

A model showcases designs by Annah Stretton at the New Zealand Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Simon Watts/Getty Images)

Members of the public cheer as the refrigerated truck carrying the two giant pandas, Kai Kai and Jia Jia arrives at the Singapore Zoo. Kai Kai and Jia Jia are on loan for 10 years, as part of a deal done between the China Wildlife Conservation Association and Wildlife Reserve Singapore. The Pandas will be kept in quarantine for one month before being released into their climate-controlled exhibit. The pandas will be on display for public viewing from December. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

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